Does anyone know a weight loss strategy???

Kyte · Post by **Kyte** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:55 pm

Hi, I am 23 years old and have been gaining on pounds and this is getting to me. The thing is that after several efforts of exercise and dieting, I don’t seem to get any slimmer! There are many ways to lose weight, but I have exhausted all the ways I know. I have consulted a few people but all of them have been telling me the same thing. It isn’t helping me and only making my fears worse.

Is there some way to make me feel better!!!

sagesteve · Post by **sagesteve** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:15 am

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Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:19 am

There's only one weight loss strategy that works, consume less calories, and do more physical work. Magic Pills and wishing don't work, life changes are required. That's the hard part most of us aren't strong enough to do it, and a few of us can't for physical reasons.

It's hard for us to give up the things we live for. Jim

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:17 am

Not eating.

lebedjev · Post by **lebedjev** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:49 am

Do like this. It works for me at least.

No sugar, no white bread, no cheese, no butter.

Dinners and lunches like this.

50% vegetables, 25% meat, 25% pasta, rice, potatous etc.

Just drink water tea and coffe.

Try to walk and bicycle if applicable.

I dont have time to excersize so I have to skip that totaly.

countman88 · Post by **countman88** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:02 am

Depends how much you want to do it.
Walk an additional 3 to 5 miles a day at a brisk pace. Halve your food intake and eat only healthy food. Become obsessed with eating the right food and doing your exercise and no treats. Should lose at lest two pounds a week. That's 100 pounds a year.
Problem is if you stop doing this when you reach your goal weight, you will put it back on.
Best to change your lifestyle to incorporate healthy eating and reasonable exercise. Will take twice as long to lose the weight, but it will stay off.

Ken D
Bris

yardbird · Post by **yardbird** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:19 am

Drink WATER.

Sounds simple and it is. Drink at LEAST one big glass of water about 20 minutes before a meal. Even better if you drink 2. And "big" means at least a 16 ounce glass. Not a little juice glass.

It takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to "realize" that it's full. Most of us take far less than 20 minutes to eat a meal. So by the time our stomach starts telling we've had enough, we've already had too much.

So there you have it.

Drink water

Needsdecaf · Post by **Needsdecaf** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:23 am

yardbird wrote:Drink WATER.

Sounds simple and it is. Drink at LEAST one big glass of water about 20 minutes before a meal. Even better if you drink 2. And "big" means at least a 16 ounce glass. Not a little juice glass.

It takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to "realize" that it's full. Most of us take far less than 20 minutes to eat a meal. So by the time our stomach starts telling we've had enough, we've already had too much.

So there you have it.

Drink water

Erm, that's not really going to help all that much. I drink enough water to supply a small village every day and I'm not losing weight. Not really working at it, but if it was as easy as drinking water, then I'd be cut like a razor right now.

The only way to lose weight is the following:

1) Burn more calories than you take in every day.
2) Regulate your diet / exercise / sleep habits so that your metabolism is not in protective mode.

#1 is easy to follow, just get a calorie counter, scale, etc.
#2 is far more complicated to perform. You have to understand a bit about metabolism, and about yourself. If you slash calories radically you will lose weight, you have to (see rule 1). However your body goes into protective mode and actually uses much more of your daily intake to produce fat, rather than burning it to regenerate your body and for energy. Result...not as much weight loss, poor energy, bad overall health.

You need to pick out foods that contain good healthy ingredients...whole grains, lean meats, lots of fruits and veggies and not crash diet.

The tip for #1 is to write down everything you eat. Even if you don't compute all the calories, you may not realize how much you're actually eating during the day. Many people snack and graze unconsciously and can't figure out why they don't lose weight.

sagesteve · Post by **sagesteve** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:39 pm

I'll say it again...http://fatloss4idiots.com/

It WORKS!! You can live with it and it immediately stops the cravings for wrong foods.

This is the best way to go, period...I'm an expert and have tried EVERYTHING in the past...EVERYTHING!!!

alnhwrd · Post by **alnhwrd** » Tue May 20, 2008 3:26 pm

I have yet to successfully incorporate this, but it seems very reasonable. Target your WORST eating habit (eating a box of twinkies every night, drinking a twelve pack of beer, etc) and eliminate it. Then your next worst, and the next, until you are eating better.

Eating less and exercising more also seems very logical and workable. The problem, as always, is making it work for you. Once you have the attitude that you WILL make it work, (kinda like Cpap) the rest falls into place.

Silio · Post by **Silio** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:37 pm

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:09 am

If you have sleep apnoea you are probably insulin resistant. That means that the cells in your body don't open up to the fuel they need to work properly. The doorways into the cells are locked.

Think of the cells as locked rooms, sugar as the fuel the cells need and insulin as the keys that unlock the doors. The locks just don't accept the keys any more, (they've got kind of rusty) and no matter how many keys we use the doors stay stubbornly locked. That is insulin resistance. The body has plenty of sugar and plenty of insulin, but the cells won't let the sugar in.

The only way to loosen up those locks is exercise. Not sustained exercise necessarily (that is good for cardiovascular, but not necessary for insulin resistance). Just enough to make you sweat a bit, and for a few minutes, more than once a day.

Just try for now to build in a little more exercise over the day as part of your lifestyle. Walk a little bit faster, so you pant a bit. Park further from your destination so you have to walk a little bit more.

I don't know what your state of fitness/physical ability is. Just be realistic, and try to do a little bit more tomorrow than you did today.

Eventually you can build a total of half an hour or an hour a day, maybe in ten minute bursts.

Another good step would be to consult a dietician who will help you identify a healthy diet for you that you like and that will fit in with your lifestyle.

Good luck. If you only lose 5 kilos (12 lbs) you will have done your future self a huge favour

I am in the same boat, by the way. We can but try our best.

love

Di

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:22 am

PS

I should have pointed out that insulin resistance keeps people fat.

Exercise (just a few minutes of getting a bit sweaty!)

(1) reverses the insulin resistance (the greater total time you exercise, the more effectively it will work)

(2) increases the metabolism for several hours. That will help you lose fat when combined with an appropriate diet.

(3) releases those lovely "feel good" hormones which make life much much brighter!

Di

lifeartist59 · Post by **lifeartist59** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:18 am

Goofproof is right, but do remember if you are trying something for a long time, your body will self-adjust to keep the weight on and you will have to mix things up a bit too. Last year I lost 30 pounds, yet none so far this year doing the same things so I am off to the proverbial drawing board once again to try to take off more.....

lvehko · Post by **lvehko** » Wed May 21, 2008 7:22 pm

Oh, my dear Kyte --

You pose a question that has dogged the best minds of our race for the better part of this century.

I will tell you that, when I finally gave up dieting for good, my weight stabilized, and I began to eat better. The cost? I had to accept my existing weight. I'm not obese, but I'm not at what the insurance charts say I'm 'supposed' to weigh either. I have had to be satisfied with that.

The only thing that diets do is make you fatter. Give them up is my advice, and learn to accept your weight where it is now. Start learning how to eat from body hunger and not according to any sort of external plan, or in response to emotional issues. That's what has worked for me.

I wish you luck, let us know how it goes.

Minerva

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